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* The Fourth International Workshop *
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* Programming Language Interference and Dependence *
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* co-located with LOPSTR'08, PPDP'08 and SAS'08 *
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* 15 July, 2008, Valencia, Spain *
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* Venue: The Technical University of Valencia *
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* Last Call for Contributions *
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* http://www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Conferences/PLID08 *
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Important Dates
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Expression of interest June 1, 2008
Extended abstract June 15, 2008
Workshop July 15, 2008
Early Registration June 10, 2008
Workshop Description
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Interference and dependence are closely related concepts, the first
being the observable phenomenon connected to the second. Interference
essentially means that behaviour of some parts of a dynamic system may
influence the behaviour of other parts of the system. Dependence
specifies the relation between the semantics of sub-components of a
dynamic system.
Discovering, measuring and controlling interference is essential in
many aspects of modern computer science, in particular in security,
program analysis and verification, debugging, systems specification,
model checking, program manipulation, program slicing, reverse
engineering, data mining, distributed databases and systems
biology. Doing these things requires theories, models and semantics
for interference and dependence, as well as algorithms and tools for
analysis and reasoning about interference and dependence.
The aim of this workshop is to gather together the community of people
that study dependence and interference from the different points of
view in order to generate new possible research directions. PLID is
devoted to bridging all these communities and assisting work towards a
common goal, providing the appropriate environment for reasoning about
the state of the art in interference and dependence.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Security against unwanted interference and dependence
* Models and theories of program interference
* Algorithms for reducing or removing interference or for
ameliorating its effects
* Theory and foundations of program slicing and related dependence
analyses
* Resource declassification theories
* Semantics of dependence and interference
* Analyses based on interference and dependence
* Abstract interpretation for dependence and interference
* Dependence and interference in specifications
* Slicing models and specifications
* Interaction between dependence and refinement
Keynote Speaker
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Gilles Barthe, IMDEA-software (Madrid, Spain)
Submission
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The workshop welcomes contributions of on-going work and ideas in the
field of dependence and interference. Those who are interested in
having a talk at the workshop and/or discussing issues related with
these subjects are invited to send your expression of interest to
Samir Genaim (samir at clip.dia.fi.upm.es) before June 1st, 2008.
There will be no formal publication of papers. A web-page will be
organised collecting all the workshop contributions. Submitted
extended abstracts should be of at most 10 pages LNCS-style and should
be sent before June 15th 2008.
Program Committee
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David Clark Kings College, London, UK
Sebastian Danicic University of London, UK
Samir Genaim (chair) Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Roberto Giacobazzi University of Verona, Italy
Daniele Gorla University of Roma, Italy
Sebastian Hunt City University, London, UK
Herbert Wiklicky Imperial College, London, UK
Steve Zdancewic University of Pennsylvania, USA
Local organization chair
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Christophe Joubert Technical University of Valencia / DSIC